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A New Competition
Pete: I _______ studying and exams. I _______ to _______ everything,
become a _______ and join a hippie group somewhere.
John: That’s not a bad idea. I _______ work myself. We could forget about
the cost of living, the price of houses, _______ the neighbours and
all the rest of it. Shall we go and live on the beach at St. Ives?
Pete: Can’t we _______ a warmer climate? Anyway I’d like to _______
than that.
John: Well, it does _______ and damp in St. Ives. Let’s hitch-hike across
Europe and fi nd some lovely lonely island in the farthest corner of
the Mediterranean. We can start our own hippie colony there.
Pete: Great idea! We’ll create a society with no exams and with no
competition to see who can make _______ and build the most
luxurious house and _______ in the most expensive car.
John: Yes... We’ll start a new competition to see who can live with the
least money, the fewest possessions and the smallest house.
Pete: You can’t _______ competitions of some sort, can you, John?
Exercise 4. The phrases below on the left and their defi nitions on the right are
not matched. Match each term to its defi nition. The answers may
be presented in the “fi gure-letter” form like that: 1-a, 2-b etc.
1. a matter of an importance a. to be determined to do smth. a im
portance or achieve smth., esp. smth.
that may cause trouble
2. add up b. to visit smb. for a short time, esp. in
smb.’s home
3. be fed up with c. to try to avoid discussing some problem
or not paying attention to it
4. be intent on d. to manage to go, to do smth. or learn as
fast as other people
5. call on e. a subject that is important, that people
worry about
6. get away from f. to make a great effort to achieve smth.
7. have a good mind to g. to enjoy smth. very much, esp. smth. you
should not do
8. keep up with h. to be tired, bored or annoyed of smth.
or doing smth., esp. routine and
uninteresting job
9. strive to (towards) i. to calculate the total of several numbers
10. take a delight in j. used when you are considering doing
smth. but are not sure you will (= not
very serious threat)
Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases
in the previous four exercises.
1. Известно, что более 40% федерального бюджета России сосре-
доточено в Москве. Вот почему москвичи отличаются от других людей,
живущих в провинции.
2. Каждый раз, когда я к нему обращаюсь, он делает вид, что ничего
не понимает. На самом деле он понимает все.
3. Я не хочу иметь никаких дел
с нечестными людьми. Проблема в
том, как определить заранее, кто — честный, кто — нечестный.
4. Продавец (в салоне автомобилей):
— Эта машина не имеет коробки скоростей (gear). Ею управлять
легче, чем троллейбусом. Каждая женщина может водить такую машину.
Женщина:
— Мне не нравится ваше замечание. Сядьте в машину и продемон-
стрируйте, как она
работает.
5. Она устала от домашней работы, а он устал от ее замечаний.
6. Время хиппи прошло, но живущих вне общества еще достаточно
много.
7. Артистам часто приходится пользоваться гримом, от чего кожа на
лице быстро стареет.
8. Денежное содержание членов Государственной Думы не соот-
ветствует их ничтожному вкладу в систему управления. Зарплата
препо-
давателей и научных работников тоже не соответствует их вкладу в дело
науки и подготовки специалистов, однако во втором случае эта зарплата
ниже прожиточного минимума.
9. Российское правительство имеет намерения стабилизировать эко-
номику. Все верят в эти намерения, но никто не верит в их реализацию.
10. Наши «выдающиеся сатирики» получают большое
удовольствие,
рассказывая о повседневной тяжелой жизни в России.
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Unit 19
Exercise 1. Complete the sentences in the text with suitable forms of the phrasal
verbs or other expressions in the box below. Make any changes,
if necessary:
a great deal, in large numbers, as a result, just after, at most, lack of
space, bring about, replace by, “high-rise”, seek after, house in, suffer
from, in height
Flats in the Clouds
Blocks of _______ fl ats have been erected _______ in London and in
many other big cities. _______ the Second World War these immense twentyto-thirty storey buildings, hundreds of feet _______ , were thought to be the
ideal solution to the dual problem of acute housing shortage and _______ in
urban areas. At fi rst, the ultramodern apartments were much _______ by city-
dwellers, and hundreds of the vast blocks had been built before anyone began
to doubt that they were suitable places for people, children especially, to live
in. A well-known British architect, who personally designed many of these
buildings, now believes that they may well have infl icted _______ of suffering
on those people who have been _______ them, and evidence has been amassed
by sociologists which suggests that severe loneliness and deep depression are
_______ by life within these great towers. Some psychologists even maintain
that an unduly large proportion of their inhabitants _______ mental disorders
and develop criminal tendencies. _______ of the recent queries, plans for new
high-rise blocks are being scrapped. They are going to be _______ so called
“lowrise” blocks, _______ six storeys high.
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences in the text with suitable forms of the phrasal
verbs or other expressions in the box below. Make any changes,
if necessary:
aim at, in depth, barely, not much of, before the end, pass by, by the
way, spot of exercise, cool down, up and down, dive into, work on, fi ll
with, would rather, hold a party
The New Pool
Andy: Have they fi nished _______ your new swimming-pool yet,
Charles? When I _______ yesterday, it was being _______
water, wasn’t it?
Charles: That’s right. We had our fi rst swim in it this morning. The
concrete path around it is going to be widened, but everything
will have been completed _______ of the week.
Andy: You must be pleased. How long is it?
Charles: It’s only 25 feet long and 15 feet wide, but that’s big enough to
_______ in, isn’t it?
Andy: And to get a _______ in. If you normally swim twenty lengths
in a big pool, you can get the same benefi t if you swim _______
forty or fi fty times in a small one, can’t you?
Charles: Yes, but I’m hardly _______ getting into the Olympic team,
am I?
Andy: How deep is it? You can’t _______ it, can you?
Charles: Oh yes, you can! It’s eight feet _______ at one end. The diving-
board will be installed tomorrow. _______ , we’re _______
swimming _______ on Sunday, if it’s not too cold. You will
come, won’t you?
Andy: I’d love to come, but I’m _______ a swimmer, and I can
_______ dive at all. I’ll probably drown.
Charles: Well, I’m hardly the world’s best swimmer myself. Anyway
there’ll be lots of our friends there.
Andy: Good. I _______ drown in a circle of friends than in water.
Exercise 3. Complete the sentences in the text with suitable forms of the phrasal
verbs or other expressions in the box below. Some expression may
occur more than once. Make any changes, if necessary:
annoy about, in luck, anything wrong, out of luck, claim from, park
round there, fall onto, put right, get out, up the road a bit, get rid of,
used to
Out of Luck
Bill: I suppose you heard about that great chunk of concrete ____
_______ a car in South Street yesterday, didn’t you, Ted?
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Ted: Yes, I saw it in the paper. From a two hundred and fi fty foot high
building, wasn’t it? I gather the driver had just _______ or he’d have
been killed, wouldn’t he?
Bill: Oh yes. I saw the car; it was a complete wreck.
Ted: You usually _______ your car _______ , don’t you, Bill?
Bill: Yes, I left it in that very spot a couple of days ago, but yester day it
was parked _______ .
Ted: You were _______ then, weren’t you, Bill?
Bill: _______ , you mean! I’d be very pleased if my old car were smashed
to bits. I could _______ the insurance company then, couldn’t I?
Ted: But you _______ be so proud of your car, didn’t you, Bill?
Bill: I _______ be years ago, but now there are all sorts of repairs to
be done, and I just haven’t got enough spare cash to _______ it
_______ .
Ted: You can always sell it, can’t you, Bill?
Bill: Few people are stupid enough to buy a car in that state, are they?
Ted: The chap whose car was crushed yesterday was very _______ it.
He’ll be given a new car by the builders, though.
Bill: Yes, but his car was a specially-built model that can’t be replaced,
and there was hardly _______ with it, was there?
Ted: Well, that’s life! When people actually want to _______ their cars,
this sort of thing seldom happens, does it?
Exercise 4. The phrases below on the left and their defi nitions on the right are
not matched. Match each term to its defi nition. The answers may
be presented in the “fi gure-letter” form like that: 1-a, 2-b etc.
1. annoy with (about) a. to make smb. suffer from smth. unpleasant
2. bring about b. to spend time and efforts trying to improve
smth. or to solve a problem
3. cool down c. to experience physical or mental pain from an
infl uence
4. hold a party d. to make smth. happen
5. infl ict on e. to remove smth. from its place and put a
different thing there
6. pass by f. to become oneself cooler after taking a shower
or swimming
7. replace by (with) g. to look for smth. that you need, esp. in news-
papers and advertisements
8. seek after h. to arrange for an event (meeting, party etc.)
9. suffer from i. to make smb. feel slightly angry and unhappy
about smth.
10. work on j. to move past or go past a person, place etc.
Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases in
the previous four exercises.
1. В результате совместных миротворческих усилий России, Финлян-
дии и США бомбардировки Югославии авиацией НАТО прекратились.
2. В магазине «ТОТО» вы можете приобрести кожаные куртки при-
мерно за 200 долларов, максимум за 300 долларов.
3. В этом бассейне купаться безопасно: он заполняется проточной
водой (well drained water).
4. Во время концерта рок-группы фанаты
прыгали, махали руками и
возбужденно кричали (to scream).
5. Ухо д я от Рольфа, Штирлиц спросил: «Между прочим, у тебя нет
таблеток от головной боли?»
6. Исторически русскому народу не везло: с 1917 года по 1985 год его
уничтожали большевики; с 1985 — архитекторы перестройки.
7. Билл обычно ездит на машине, как сумасшедший. Вчера он попал
в аварию. Его машина
разбилась вдребезги и ремонту не подлежит. Биллу
повезло: он остался жив.
8. Штирлиц знал Берлин как свои пять пальцев (like the back of one’s
hand), поэтому, чтобы избавиться от «хвоста», он свернул в один из про-
ходных дворов.
9. Каждый день в газетах печатаются объявления: молодые специали-
сты ищут работу.
10. У Джона очень тяжелый характер: своими скандалами
он посто-
янно причиняет боль (a great deal of suffering) своей жене и детям.
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Unit 20
Exercise 1. Complete the sentences in the text with the suitable forms of phrasal
verbs or other expressions in the box below. Make any changes,
if necessary:
be grateful, keep an eye on smb, be fi t, keep smb home, be keen on,
look forward to, be on the safe side, provide with, be pleased, recover
from, come back, take part in, grow out of, take to, in stock, watch
over
Back to School
35 Manor Road,
Harpole,
Portsmouth,
16th September
Dear Mr. Harrison,
Jamie is _______ to school on Monday and my husband has asked me to
explain the situation to you. Jamie has _______ his bout of bronchitis now, but
the doctor told us to _______ him _______ for a few more days to _______ .
We hope he hasn’t missed any thing important since term began. We would like
to ask you to _______ him for a while and not to let him _______ games or
gymnastics for a week. This is on the doctor’s advice — I enclose a note from
him. Jamie __ so _______ games that he will try to play before he _______
enough, unless someone _______ .
We have _______ him ___ all the clothes on the list except the red athletics
vests and the blue shorts. He has already _______ last year’s pair, but we only
discovered this yesterday and the local shop doesn’t have any _______ . I shall
get some next week and forward them by post.
We ___ very _______ that Jamie _______ boardingschool life so well in his
fi rst year, and we trust he will continue to be happy. We __ both very _______
you for being so helpful last year, and we _______ having another talk with
you at the parent-teacher meeting next month.
Yours sincerely, Signature
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences in the dialogue with the suitable forms of
the expressions in the box below. Make any changes if necessary:
for the sake of, have confi dence in themselves, instead of, less dependent
on, on end, send... away, show off, the thing is that..., turn into
A Little More Gossip
Mrs. Jones: I hear that the new people at number thirty-fi ve send their
boy to a private boarding-school _______ the local school.
What snobs they are!
Mrs. Smith: They are, aren’t they? I wouldn’t dream of _______ my little
boy ___ to some strange institution for months _______
every year. I think it’s cruel.
Mrs. Jones: It is, isn’t it? It would break my heart every term. And
_______ these private schools are often not as good as free
state schools.
Mrs. Smith: They aren’t, are they? My nephew only went to his local
grammar school and he’s just been awarded a scholarship
to study classics at Oxford.
Mrs. Jones: The Williams only send their boy away _______ appearances.
They just like to _______ .
Mrs. Smith: Yes, they do, don’t they? Of course, some people say that a
boarding-_______school education is good for children because
it teaches them to _______ and they learn to be _______ their
parents... But I think it only _______ them ____ snobs.
Mrs. Jones: It does, doesn’t it? Still, I don’t know what I’ll do with my
Trevor next year. I don’t want him to go to that big new
school. The children of all the commonest people in the
area go there.
Mrs. Smith: Well, they’re closing all the old schools. If you don’t like
the new state school, you’ll just have to pay to send him to
a private school, won’t you?
Exercise 3. Complete the sentences in the dialogue with the suitable forms of
the expressions in the box below. Make any changes if necessary:
anyway, keep ordering, at this rate, leave smb. alone, be fi t, patched-
up, behave properly, play about, climb, take notice of, heaven... knows,
worry about (x2), in public
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The Cost of Appearances
Mrs. Williams: We really must buy some new clothes for Jamie. His best
trousers are too small for him now, and most of his other
pairs ___ not ___ to be worn _______ .
Mr. Williams: What about those nice brown trousers we bought for him
in the spring?
Mrs. Williams: He ripped a hole in those while he was _______ a tree in
the garden last month.
Mr. Williams: I told him not to wear decent clothes while he was
_______ . I’ll teach him to _______ more _______
_______ what I say.
Mrs. Williams: Oh, _______ him _______ . You _______ him to do this
and do that. He’s almost afraid to move.
Mr. Williams: Well, he’s got to learn to _______ sometime. _______
_______ you’ve got a sewing-machine and a pair of
scissors. Why don’t you mend them, and alter some of his
other trousers to fi t him?
Mrs. Williams: Certainly not. You can’t send a boy to a good-class school
in _______ trousers.
Mr. Williams: All right then, but we’ll be broken by the end of the month
_______ . We’ve still got to get him some new pyjamas,
a pair of blue shorts and those red vests. _______ only
_______ why he has to wear red vests. People will think
he’s joining the Labour Party or something.
Mrs. Williams: Don’t be silly. I’m more _______ his maths not im proving
than about the colour of his shirts.
Mr. Williams: And I’m more _______ paying the bills.
Exercise 4. The phrases below on the left and their defi nitions on the right are
not matched. Match each term to its defi nition. The answers may
be presented in the “fi gure-letter” form like that: 1-a, 2-b etc.
1. be fi t a. to replace smth for smth else
2. for the sake of b. when clothes are repaired by adding new pieces
of material to it
3. grow out of c. to do an activity, sport etc. with other people
4. instead of d. to get better after an illness, accident, shock etc.
5. keep smb. home e. to be healthy after having been ill
6. patched-up f. to take part in a game or sport, esp. in the yard
near the house where the children live in
7. play about g. means that you do smth. without a reason but to
show everyone that you are able to do it
8. recover from h. to bring smb. or smth. to the place where you are
now (school, hospital etc.)
9. to take part in i. to continue to be in a particular state (in the
hospital, at home etc.)
10. to take to j. when a child becomes too big to wear his (her)
clothes
Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases in
the previous four exercises.
1. Вместо того чтобы готовиться к экзамену, он поехал к друзьям на
вечеринку.
2. Если ты будешь вести себя достойным образом, все будет в
порядке.
3. У него никакой фундаментальности (fundamental character): все,
что он делает, — только на показуху.
4. Ты не такой уж бедный, поэтому не
приходи в театр в этих зала-
танных штанах.
5. Олигархи (tycoons) приехали не на концерт, а чтобы продемонстри-
ровать свои костюмы и автомобили.
6. Дело в том, что он вообще не хочет работать.
7. За лето Билл так вытянулся (become tall), что джинсы стали ему
слишком коротки.
8. Когда Салли (Sallie) было шесть лет, мама каждый день
водила ее
в школу.
9. Когда дети играли во дворе, начался дождь.
10. Ты не беседуешь с ними, а постоянно приказываешь, что им
делать и чего не делать.
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